Sir Bibye Lake, 1st Baronet (c. 1684 – 1744) was an English lawyer and aristocrat. He was one of the

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. He was the only son of Thomas Lake (9 February 1656 – 22 May 1711), a

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-born English-educated lawyer, who was a barrister of the

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, London. Thomas Lake was the son of Captain Thomas Lake, a wealthy Bostonian who was the younger half-brother of

Sir Edward Lake, 1st Baronet Sir Edward Lake, 1st Baronet (1600 - 18 July 1674) was an eminent Lawyer who became Advocate general of Ireland. He was a Royalist, badly wounded in the Battle of Edgehill, and was the first of the Lake baronets. Sir Edward also became Chancellor ...

. Captain Lake bought

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, in 1660, and was killed aged 61 in a fight with Native Americans at his trading post on 14 August 1676. He was buried in

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, Boston.Kirkman, Grace Goodyear (1899
''Genealogy of the Goodyear Family''
San Francisco: Cubery and Company. pp. 55–57 Sir Edward died without issue aged 77 on 18 April 1674, and his estate subsequently devolved to Thomas Lake, the son of Captain Lake. Bibye or Bibby Lake was baptised on 10 April 1684 at Bishop Norton,

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. Bibye was the surname of Sir Edward Lake's wife, who had died more than 14 years before. He became a

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of the Middle Temple, London, and was Sub-Governor of the African Company. Shortly after his father's death, he made representations that his great-uncle had received a warrant from King Charles I, dated 30 December 1643, for a baronetcy with a

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to his heirs male. The warrant had not received the Great Seal of the Realm and so was not valid, but if it had been, the baronetcy would have devolved on Bibye. A new warrant, this time sealed, was drawn up and Bibye Lake became the first baronet of a new Lake line on 17 October 1711. He married in or before 1713 Mary Atwell, daughter and heir of William Atwell of London. He was buried on 6 April 1744, in the

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, aged 60, where his widow was also later buried on 23 January 1752. In or after April 1760, their bodies were re-interred at

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, in the same vault as their eldest son, Sir Atwell Lake, 2nd Baronet.

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